Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] filling in ACPI method access via sysfsnamespace

[Alex Williamson]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 23:31, John Belmonte wrote:
> 
> You may want to look at the acpi-devel thread "[rfc] generic testing 
> ACPI module", where this issue was discussed 
> (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7455349).

   Ok, I took a look.  The open/write/read/close interface seems to be
the best approach.  It shouldn't be too hard, except the read/write
interfaces don't pass in the attribute pointer like they do for the
show/store interface.  Is this a bug?

   A nice feature of the current implementation is that I have one show
function that reads the method name out of the attribute structure. 
With the bin_file interface, I'd need to have a different read/write
function for every possible method on a kobject.  I also lose the
convenience of being able extend the container structure to meet my
needs.  Am I strecthing the use of the bin_file too far or should these
interfaces pass the attribute pointer?  Thanks,

	Alex

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